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Starmade | Astronaut flying/walking movement speed can be increased by holding down multiple movement buttons at the same time
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#1
Astronaut flying/walking movement speed can be increased by holding down multiple movement buttons at the same time

example:
Pressing W for "forward" + pressing E for "up" + pressing D for "sideways" means players can increase their speed in the new angled

its actually been around since the beginning of starmade. so im surprised nobody has fixed it yet considering how small and prob easy-to-fix it is.

#2
Yeah, noticed that too and tested it out now just to be sure. Seems to be a factor of 1.4142 (square root of 2) increase in speed this way.

going 1 m/s in X direction and going 1 m/s in Y direction results in 1.4142 m/s and after testing it out a bit this seems about right. Same for using 3 keys to go quicker in 1 direction (should be a factor around 1.7/1.8).

This doesn't seem to happen with ships though. You can't seem to cross maximum speed using this method. Crossed a distance of 1km in around 10/11 seconds with 100 m/s max speed. Tried the 2 keys and 3 keys method and noticed almost no difference and the minor difference is probably user error.

#3
works with joystick throttle too it seems

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Task Type
Bug
Testing Results
Affected Gamemode(s)
Single and Multi
Reproducible
Yes
Last tested (version)
0.19602 (DEV)
Category
Engine
First occurrence (version)
0.14
Hardware/Software/System
OS-Specific
No
Hardware-Specific
No
Video Card Vendor
uncertain
Tester information (Internal use only)

-QA Testing-

not fixed ... i still get a speed increase when running on a planet surface for example when using w+d at the same time to move.

and the w for forward plus the joystick thrust control nearly doubles the movement

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SmilingDemon updated the task description. (Show Details)Jun 12 2015, 2:03 PM
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Lord_Greyscale added a subscriber: Lord_Greyscale.Jul 13 2015, 1:53 PM

I'm rather certain that isn't a bug. It mirrors real world thrust.

you add more nozzles thrusting, you go faster.
they're off-axis? you don't go quite as fast.

Nearly all games have this "error" and nearly all games have someone asking about it.

Starmade is the only one I can think of where leaving it alone makes sense. (the "multiple thrusters" thing)

AndyP added a subscriber: AndyP.Jul 13 2015, 8:54 PM

not really, this is more a problem with input processing.

The problem is:
when two inputs do the same thing, they should not alter the results when both inputs are used together.

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-QA Testing-

not fixed ... i still get a speed increase when running on a planet surface for example when using w+d at the same time to move.

and the w for forward plus the joystick thrust control nearly doubles the movement

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SmilingDemon closed this task as Closed.Jan 6 2017, 7:42 PM

-QA Testing-

looks good now .. cant seem to accelerate faster by using more than one input!

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